442 Quotes by W. S. Gilbert

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    We were feeling it. We weren't focused on time, we just wanted to get in the final. Now we're going to try to win it.

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    If it happened over three months ago, with only a few exceptions, it has no impact whatsoever on your happiness.

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    When the enterprising burglar isn't burgling; When the cut-throat isn't occupied in crime; He loves to hear the little brook a-gurgling; And listen to the merry village chime.

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    It's been pretty devastating. We're trying to lick our wounds and move forward. They're coming back, that's the good news. I hope that we can put things together.

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    There is no honor from this leadership, no class, no integrity, ... It's very hard for all of us who are no longer there; there's a certain sense that everything was for naught. The political tides have turned. and they are taking themselves in directions that I think are self-destructive.

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    I'm very good at integral and differential calculus, I know the scientific names of beings animalculous; In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern Major-General.

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    He was a very robust man despite serving during horrendous times which increased pressures on him.

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